Some animal sketches


These are some very quick scribbly sketches done in South Luangwa National Park in Zambia.  Luckily Mr lion had just eaten half an impala so he was not too interested in these strange people peering at him and recording him in to their sketch books.      I thought that an elephant would be a simple creature to draw,  but all of my first attempts looked  just like Dumbo.  I feel that with this second sketch I was begining to get his proportions right.  This very large chap was nibbling trees outside my bedroom door at five o clock one morning, so I had my very own model.  Was a bit scary.




Elephant on my doorstep


Mr Chimp Colwyn bay Mountain Zoo.

Giraffe a quick sketch in London Zoo


Hippo in river South Luangwa Zambia

Happy lion South Luangwa Zambia


Another lion